Quote Originally Posted by josh1980 View Post
There's no such thing as "decently cheap RAM drives" anymore. Even mine, in used condition, are worth $500 with no RAM per ebay.

They do have a battery and backup to a CF flash card on a loss of power of >60 seconds or so.

If someone is serious about buying one, I do have 3 or 4. PM me for more. They will include RAM (one is maxed out at 32GB too).
Gee wiz... $500? Man...

I'd love those, but I can't afford anywhere near what they're worth and wouldn't want to low-ball. If you have some gathering dust that I could borrow though...
(I won't be in the same city as my crunchers till mid-December though, so it'll be a bit of time. - I'd really love to make a dent on CEP2 though...)

BTW, how much faster are RAM Drives than, say fast, small SSDs?

Edit: looking online it seems like it might be better for me to get a software RAM drive? Since I'm not using an application that requires that much RAM, could put in 32 GB RAM, use 12 for System, 20 for Disk... but would probably need a UPS unless I can get the RAM drive to cache every hour or so... Will do some research when I have more time.